Hino Australia has celebrated its best performing dealerships in 2024 at its annual Dealer of the Year awards.
It was a changing of the guards for Hino in Australia, with Sydney’s City Hino winning the metropolitan dealer of the year award for the first time while Tas Hino won the regional title.
“Each year, our Dealer of the Year awards allow us to recognise the efforts of all Hino dealerships and their teams and also highlight the success of the top dealer groups,” Hino Australia president and CEO Richard Emery says.
“For the Tas Hino team, this award is reflective of their vision, investment and perseverance, particularly over the last two years since Ed Jones and his business partners bought the Tasmanian Hino dealer franchises.
“City Hino is a deserving recipient of the Metropolitan award– this title reinforces the team’s hard work, and also the multi-million dollar investment from Suttons Group at the Arndell Park dealership.”
City Hino general manager Daniel Glynn was on hand to collect the metropolitan dealer of the year award.
“It’s truly an honour to receive this award, especially when I look around the room at the calibre of the other Hino dealerships,” he says.
“This is a tribute to our team at City Hino which turns up every day as if it’s match day and are always prepared to go above and beyond for our customers.
“We are also very grateful for the support we have received from other Hino dealers and Hino Australia.”
The City Hino team also won the Parts Excellence Award (Metro) and, for the second consecutive year, took home the Hino Financial Services Excellence Award.
For Tas Hino, dealer principal Troy Wood accepted the award on behalf of his team.
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“At last year’s awards ceremony, we won one award and were inspired by the other dealerships who won more – we made a commitment to ourselves that we wanted to be even better,” he says.
“We made a massive investment in our people, ensuring that we have the right people in the right positions, and we owe a great deal of gratitude to our people for the transition we have gone through over the last 18 months.”
He also acknowledged the collaborative and supportive nature of the Hino dealer network and the Hino Australia team.
Turnbull Hino claimed the Sales Excellence (Regional) and Customer Experience (Regional) awards.
CMI Hino Adelaide won the Sales Excellence (Metro) award for the second consecutive year.
It was a clean sweep of the Service Excellence awards for Sci-Fleet Hino with its Brisbane dealership winning the metropolitan trophy and its Gold Coast franchise taking home the regional equivalent.
In its 35th year as a Hino dealership, Sci-Fleet Brisbane also demonstrated its dedication to customers winning the Customer Experience Award (Metro).
Mildura business Johnson’s Truck & Coach Services was crowned the winner of the Parts Excellence Award (Regional).
The prestigious President’s Award was won by Sydney’s City Hino, Tas Hino, Wodonga’s Jacob Hino, Johnson’s Truck & Coach Service (Mildura), CMI Hino Adelaide and Sci Fleet Brisbane – for the latter two, it was their fourth consecutive year.
For the second year in a row, Adtrans Hino’s Stewart Scoon was awarded the Salesperson of the Year.
See a full list of winners below:
Metropolitan Dealer of the Year:
City Hino, Sydney, NSW
Regional Dealer of the Year:
Tas Hino, Tasmania
Hino Financial Services Excellence Award:
City Hino, Sydney, NSW
President’s Award:
CMI Hino Adelaide, SA
Sci-Fleet Hino Brisbane, QLD
City Hino, Sydney, NSW
Tas Hino, TAS
Jacob Hino, Wodonga, VIC
Johnson’s Truck & Coach Service, Mildura, VIC
Customer Experience Award:
Metropolitan – Sci Fleet Hino, Brisbane, QLD
Regional – Turnbull Hino, Sale, VIC
Salesperson of the Year
Stewart Scoon – Adtrans Hino, Sydney, NSW
Sales Excellence (Metro):
GOLD – CMI Hino Adelaide, SA
SILVER – City Hino, Sydney, NSW
BRONZE – Adtrans Hino, Sydney, NSW
Sales Excellence (Regional):
GOLD – Turnbull Hino, Sale, VIC
SILVER – Jacob Hino, Wodonga, VIC
BRONZE – Newcastle Hino, NSW
Parts Excellence (Metro):
GOLD – City Hino, Sydney, NSW
SILVER – Sci Fleet Hino Brisbane, QLD
BRONZE – WA Hino, Perth WA
Parts Excellence (Regional):
GOLD – Johnson’s Truck & Coach Service, Mildura, VIC
SILVER – Southside Truck Centre, Coffs Harbour, NSW
BRONZE – Tas Hino, TAS
Service Excellence (Metro):
GOLD – Sci Fleet Hino, Brisbane, QLD
SILVER – CMI Hino Melbourne, VIC
BRONZE – Prestige Hino, VIC
Service Excellence (Regional):
GOLD – Sci Fleet Hino, Gold Coast, QLD
SILVER – Turnbull Hino, Sale, VIC
BRONZE – Jacob Hino, Wodonga, VIC
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